Gerd Brand (philosopher)

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Gerd Brand (born April 8, 1921 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 3, 1979 ) was a German philosopher and science manager.

Life

Gerd Brand, 1921 in Frankfurt a. M. born, had to leave Germany after 1933. From 1939 to 1947 he studied philosophy and economics at the University of Leuven in Belgium . In 1948 he became general manager of the Belgian-Luxembourgish-German Chamber of Commerce . In 1949/1950 he was the head of the first official German agency in Belgium after the war, which dealt with issues relating to nutrition , agriculture and forestry in Antwerp . In 1950 he did his doctorate with Herman Leo Van Breda , the then head of the Löwener Husserl Archive, with the work Welt, Ich, Zeit, published in 1955 as a book - based on unpublished manuscripts by E. Husserl .

From 1950 to 1969 Gerd Brand worked in the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany with a variety of tasks - as Legation Councilor 1st Class, as Curator of the German Foundation for Developing Countries (DSE) in Berlin (1962 to 1964) and as Director of the German Development Institute ( Berlin 1964 to 1969). During these years Brand gained extensive experience abroad - u. a. in Brussels , Strasbourg , Paris and Washington, DC and published many articles, especially on the relationship between planning and freedom and on questions of meaningful cooperation .

From 1969 to 1973 Brand was Secretary General of the Science Center Berlin and from 1973 a member of the board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . "His understanding of the work and working conditions of others in the various fields of science and the ability to translate this understanding into practical support gave German science a decisive impetus."

Even during his work as a science manager, Brand remained closely connected to phenomenological research. He also contributed to the creation of the German Society for Phenomenological Research (DGPF), whose Berlin conference in 1974 he chaired together with Heinrich Rombach . It was there that the DGPF received its statutes and the phenomenological research series was founded. Many of his reviews of the literature on Husserl research from 1961 to 1975 can be found in the Philosophische Rundschau . In 1971 Die Lebenswelt appears . A philosophy of the concrete a priori . The result of this work is threefold: “Husserl's concept of the lifeworld undergoes a thorough analysis and interpretation. The role of this motif of Husserl's late philosophy in prominent positions in the phenomenological movement (in Heidegger , Sartre and Merleau-Ponty ) is made visible. Contributions to modern social and human sciences receive new application perspectives in the light of a phenomenology emerging from their narrower field . "

In 1976, Brand took up a teaching position as an honorary professor at the University of Trier . A working group on the role and function of philosophy that he set up together with the Thyssen Foundation in 1974 met every six months until 1977. His results were found in the anthology published by Hermann Lübbe in 1978, Wozu Philosophie? their precipitation. In his contribution Brand expresses a basic conviction: “ Experience is based on experience and can be corrected through experience.” An inevitable experience for him is: “We want the truth. Everything that belongs to our life, i.e. all ego functions, permeate one another. Willing, valuing, feeling, striving, etc. In a certain way, each function spans the other. Willing and values ​​encompasses recognizing, recognizing encompasses wanting, values, feeling, etc. "

Publications

  • World, me and time. Based on Edmund Husserl's unpublished manuscripts. Nijhoff, The Hague 1955.
  • The living world. A philosophy of the concrete a priori. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 978-3-11-006420-9 .
  • Society and personal history. The mythological meaning of social processes. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1972.
  • The basic texts by Ludwig Wittgenstein . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1975, ISBN 3-518-07438-5 .
  • Horizon, world, history . In: Communication Culture and Understanding of the World (= Phenomenological Research Volume 5) pp. 14–89. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1977, ISBN 3-495-47372-6 .
  • World, history, myth and politics. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 978-3-11-007505-2 .
  • Edmund Husserl. On the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. Texts from the estate . In: Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger in the perspective of new sources (= Phenomenological Research Volume 6/7) pp. 28–117. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1978, ISBN 3-495-47389-0 .
  • Role and function of philosophy. In: Hermann Lübbe (Ed.), Why Philosophy? Opinions of a working group. Pp. 344-355. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1978. Reprint 2010. ISBN 978-3-11-007513-7 , as an e-book ISBN 978-3-11-083819-0 .

literature

  • Ernst Wolfgang Orth : Obituary Prof. Dr. Gerd Brand, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 87 (1980) 93–96.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founded in 1959, renamed "German Foundation for International Development" (DSE) in 1973, merged with the "Carl Duisberg Society" in 2002 to form " International Further Education and Development " (InWEnt) "and since 2011 in the" German Society for International Cooperation ”(GIZ) worked.
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Wolfgang Orth, obituary for Gerd Brand. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 87 (1980) p. 94.
  3. ↑ Gerd Brand, Role and Function of Philosophy. In: Hermann Lübbe, Why Philosophy? P. 351.
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and science manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1979